ADDIS ABABA, 20 April 2009: The Ethiopian Ministry of Health (EMOH) announced Monday that there is a 2,6 billion US dollar financing gap to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the health sector of that country, reports Africa News.
At the signing ceremony of a joint financing worth 100 million dollar with seven development partners held in the Ethiopian capital this week, Dr Nejmudin Kedir, policy planning and finance head with the Ministry, said there was a huge financial gap to address major health problems in Ethiopia.
The finance was required to deal with malaria, HIV AIDS, TB, maternal health, to build hospitals and health centers and for the expansion of universal primary health.
The MDGs target is to halve poverty and deaths with the above major diseases from the developing countries by 2015. Last August Ethiopia became the first to sign a country compact within the framework of the International Health Partnership (IHP).
Dr. Nejmudin said there was only a small increase in funding commitments and problems with the predictability of the funds coming from donors, adding that politics impacted the fund flow.
The joint financing was signed between the MoH and DFID (UK), Irish Aid, Spanish Cooperation, World Bank, UNFPA, UNICEF, and WHO.
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